Progress!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

So, I have finished the composing part of writing Doctors!

Now to type it up,* edit the hell out of it, read it through to double-check for continuity, find a couple of beta readers, put it in manuscript form, send it off to a publisher, and prepare myself for rejection!

I will also be starting back on the Obligatory Giant Young Adult Fantasy Epic (OGYAFE for short), on the theory that if I stay in the Doctors! universe too long the common belief that THIS IS THE DUMBEST BOOK ANYONE HAS EVER WRITTEN will overwhelm me unless I can retreat to a project I don’t hate with every fiber of my being yet.

I feel like I’m actually making progress. It’s kind of … weird.


*I am an idiot and do all my raw composing in pretty notebooks with silly pens—either fine-tip Sharpie markers or ridiculous gel-writers. Partly this is due to a color-coding System I have worked out, and partly because Sharpies are fun. Either way, I like it better than trying to type.

Comments

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

Hooray!!

[10cents.livejournal.com]

I am intrigued by this color-coding system. How does that work?

(Also, if you're lining up people interested in beta-reading yet, please drop my name in the consideration pile, because I would be delighted.)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

It's actually a pretty simple system. I like to skip around when writing scenes, but I don't like to carry a hundred notebooks, so any time I start a new scene when I'm still in the middle of an old one I change pen colors. So you'll get a pink scene sitting between two blocks of green text, where I switched to writing the pink part before heading back to the green one.

It also makes inserting stuff into a handwritten scene easier--if the insert's in blue, I'll put a blue asterisk in the original scene where I want it to go.

Huh. It's toughter to explain than I expected, but it's actually pretty straightforward.

Anyway, I may take you up on the beta thing, but it may still be a while.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Can't wait till Doctors is published! I promise to buy multiple copies.